The best of shoegaze best ofs…

2 min readJan 4, 2021

As shoegaze perfectionists, we are always in search of the best best ofs in the genre. Who’s got the undisputed truth? Let’s test your appetite for listings of sonic destruction!

Shoegazing in 2020

… what a year!

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Ten Modern Shoegaze Bands: A Primer

Ten Modern Shoegaze Bands: A Primer By Jon Wiederhorn · May 26, 2017 Given the recent reunions of Ride, Slowdive, Lush…

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10 best albums

If you’re new in shoegaze, these lists are always a good start.

10 Essential Shoegaze Albums

Around the late '80s, Oxford psych-rock band Ride unexpectedly gave birth to the name of a new genre because of their…

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Loveless, Mezcal Head, Chrome... The top 10 best shoegaze albums

While it might have started off life as a music media in-joke, shoegaze became the toast of the UK indie scene in the…

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The 10 Best Shoegaze Albums Ever Made

Born in the UK in the late-'80s, shoegaze was a movement that used incredibly loud electric guitars to make something…

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Still hungry?

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20 Shoegaze Bands You Should Know in 2020

Few other genres succeed in their juxtaposition of beauty and harshness like shoegaze does. It's a style rooted in…

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30 best shoegaze bands - the ultimate list | deathdoom.com

I've predominantly been a metal fan and a rock fan throughout my life, but shoegaze is a genre that has snuck in there…

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Here begins teh shoegae exegete level…

50 best Albums

From My Bloody Valentine to Slowdive: The 50 best shoegaze albums of all time

Emerging in the United Kingdom from the late 1980s, shoegaze is an indie sub-genre that has had its rise and subsequent…

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The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time

WHERE WERE YOU IN '91? By Pete Kember If you had told me in 1991 that, 25 years later, I would be prefacing a list on…

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Definitive Dreaminess: 100 Essential Dream Pop Releases

We couldn't help but notice Pitchfork's attempt at capturing the 30 best dream pop releases, a problematic list that…

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100 Greatest Shoegaze Albums

The top 100! The greatest shoegaze albums according to Sounds Better With Reverb! From 80s classics right through to…

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The Best Shoegaze & Dream Pop Albums of the 21st Century - Album Lists - Soundblab

Another genre to experience a resurgence in the 2000s was Shoegaze and its sister genre Dream Pop. Just like Post-Punk…

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Can you handle this huge one?

200 best albums

RYM's Top 200 Shoegaze Albums

"Shoegaze, so named for the motionless and downward-looking performance style of its practitioners, was popularized in…

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To be continued

In search of playlists to feed your hearphones? We’ll keep you posted very soon…